Moss Point's Devin Booker is rated the No. 16 overall player in the country for the Class of 2014 by ESPN.com. (Chip English/GulfLive.com)

MOSS POINT, Mississippi --- Basketball star Devin
Booker will publicly announce his college choice in a ceremony at Arthur Haynes Gymnasium on the Moss
Point High School campus at 3 p.m. Thursday.

Booker, rated the No. 18 player in the Class of 2014 by
ESPN, has publicly narrowed his choices to Kentucky, Michigan, Michigan State,
Missouri and Florida. However, Kentucky, Missouri and Michigan are believed to
be the favorites for his signature.

The 6-foot-6 guard averaged 29.7 points per game as a junior
at Moss Point, when he was named Mississippi's Gatorade Player of the Year.
Booker spent the past two summers on the NIKE Elite Youth Basketball League
circuit and played in the Under Armour Elite 24 game in New York in August.

Booker took an unofficial visit last weekend to Missouri,
where his father, former Moss Point star Melvin Booker, was honored along with
the 1994 Big 8 champion Tigers. Melvin Booker was Big 8 Player of the Year that
season, and later played two seasons in the NBA and nearly than a decade in
European pro leagues.

The younger Booker grew up in his mother's hometown of Grand
Rapids, Mich., moving to Mississippi to live with his father prior to his
sophomore year of high school. His close friend from summer basketball, Tyler
Ulis, has verbally committed to Kentucky.

Moss Point begins its season in the Hattiesburg Classic on
Nov. 12, with its home-opener Nov. 19 against West Harrison. The Tigers play in
the Pearl Jamboree on Saturday.